New Ageism

noun

New Age beliefs and practices generally.

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Meanings

nounNew Ageism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableNew Age beliefs and practices generally.

    Appropriated stories were stripped by New Ageism of their demand for sacrifice and ritual, participation, shamanic guidance requiring more than the effort needed to sit before a television, read a trash novel, or crack open a geode.

    2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, page 147

Origin

From New Age + -ism.

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